In this blogseries I will present the MSS very briefly and say a few words about how they arrived in Sweden.

According to the Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments (printed version), there are fifteen registered manuscripts in Sweden. In 2008, however, I identified the sixteenth located in the National Museum of Art in Stockholm. This is registered as Greg.-Aland 1049 and was long thought to have disappeared by text-critics. Its latest known location was the Athos monastery Kutlumusiu. In the article I describe it in more detail since it has not been studied by text-critics before. The text is generally Byzantine but in the Pericope of the Adulteress in John the text is very close to NA27.

M is fairly close to NA-27, but f1, and usually f13, are closer. M has a lot of singular or rare readings that appear to be essentially misspellings of the f1 reading. The main split between the two comes in 8:5, where f13 (mostly) lines up with M against f1: